The Google AJAX Search API team [blog] have created several wizards for generating the required code to include Google search “widgets” on your website

I think the wizards were also intended to kick-start developers into a more advanced assault on the Google AJAX API. It got me poking around.

Current wizards include Map, Video, News, Book and Blog.

A sprinkling of Community Samples are also available.

The Wink search engine searches social network profiles, like myspace, for your term.

A search for the term ‘widget‘ returned a pile of myspace profiles with the screen name ‘Widget’. Makes sense I guess.

The other day Wink quietly launched a new widget for organizing all your social network profiles into one widget.

After creating a profile on the Wink site, you add links to online profiles like myspace, Flickr, YouTube, MyBlogLog, Facebook, Last.fm, LinkedIn, etc, etc, etc.

It’s not hard these days to have a dozen or more profiles, so the Wink widget is a wicked way for summarizing links to all. Use the widget to promote all your various profiles and/or to just keep things organized.

Available in three flavors - HTML/JavaScript, Flash and as an Image

This is one of the few widgets that I actually find useful and provides some value, if just for the fact it helps keep a list of all our profiles organized and accessible from one spot.

Widget box for searching against Wikipedia.org and sites which are linked from within Wikipedia. Interesting.

Searboxes from isoHunt (a Bittorrent tracker) to put on your website

A social search tool that lets you share your tagcloud on your MySpace profile, or any other page.

Build a search engine perfectly tailored to your site, blog or community.